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' MANUPACTURB 0F GIGARS.

No. 80,287 Patented July 28,'186-8.

niet mes @anni -ffcfg' WILLIAM C. -KNEELAND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 80,287, dated July 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT In THB MANUPAGTURB or ciertas.

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TC ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be' it known thatl, WlLLIAM C. KNEELAND, .of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture oi` Cigars;4 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,l clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaecompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a' cigar, wrapped as usual, with my improved eut-tobacco filler.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, taken in .the line :c rv, fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a cross-section, taken in the line y y, iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

lThis invention relates to a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of cigars, and consists in making the filler of a cigar with c'ut, ground, or granulated tobacco, instead of forming it in the usual manner of leaf or scrap-tobacco.

The eut, ground, or granulated tobacco, commonly known as smoking-tobacci," is formed into a bunch. by enclosing 'it as a filler in a binder, in the same manner that leaf or scrap-tobacco is `usually enclosed in a binder'to form a bunchg but the operation of enclosing the cut-tobacco filler in a binder or wrapper cannot be performed by hand, andrequires-a machine of peculiar construction for the purpose, such asis employed in the manufacture of cigars oreigarettes. i x

A represents the cut-tobacco ller, around which -isxwound the binder :Z to enclose and forni a bun ch.

At ongpr both ends of the cigar, small plugs, b b, of le f-tobacco mayb longitudinally to prevent'the cut tQbaCOgwfmllgm Outbfpassing `hito-:tire moutlimwlif l `i 'MWhen'tli-e bunch has been made with ameiittobacco filler, it is `covered 'with the wrapper cispirallyyand the cigar is finished in the ordinary way, having the appearance precisely like a cigar formcdfwith a. leaf or scrap-tobacco ,llerf l The cigar may be formed withoutv the binder, and a wrapper alone is then wound around the cut-tobacco '.ller, but it'is better to make it with a binden Y i The manufacture of cigars in this manner with cut, ground, or granulated tobacco, secures several important advantages, viz:

'They are made much cheaper than leaf or scrap-tobacco fillers, as every part of the plant, stems and all, is' used, whereas leaf or scrap fillers are stripped from'the4 stem, which part thus becomes comparatively valueless, and with Havana. and other fine qualities of tobacco makes aloss of material which possesses all the delicacyof flavor and superiority for smoking purposes possessed by the leaf. l

' 'A goed cigar can be made of' a. cut-tobacco filler of tobacco which would make very indifferent cigars if the leaf were used for a iill'erf It is well known, for example, that Virginia oidentueky tobacco is excellent for smoking in a pipe when cut, but makes very poor cigars in the ordinary way with the leaf filler. Cigars made with cut-tobacco fillers of Virginia. or Kentucky tobacco are very excellent, and equal even 4te goed Spanish cigars. The effect is the same in a cigar as in a pipe; the cut tobacco smokes freely, and all the oil or nicotine is consumed as it burns, for, on account of its granulated character, there is no capillary attraction, and the oil does not become offensive by accumulating in the body of the cigar and working -up into the mouth, as it does with leaf fillers, A cigar with a cut-tobacco fillerfsmokes'like a new pipe;, the tobacco is entirely free of oil, and burns freely close up to the mouth, making a short stump.

My invention relates only to the iiller, which may be enclosed in a binder of leaf-tobacco or a net of silk kor other material, or by an outside wrapper only. j i

I do hereby disclaim a cigar made with a cut-tobacco {ille-r, enclosed iu a tube of silk or other inodorous and tasteless material, as that method of makinga cigar is included in a patent granted to me, dated December 10, 1861, No. 2,8185, and the present application is fdr an improvement thereon.

Having thus described my invention, I'c'laim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a cigar made wit-ha cut-tobacco filler, substantially as described.

'lhe above specification of my invention signed by me, this 18th day of December,.1867.

' WM. c. KNEELAND.

Witnesses:

JAnnD SrAnns, LEONARD T. Comi. 

